“Another year. Another record. The high temperatures we saw in 2015 are set to be beaten in 2016,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.

And that frighteningly high 2015 record mark of 0.90°C? Well, it looks like it’s about to be smashed. In fact, from January to September 2016, global temperatures were roughly 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels.

The report also notes:

Temperatures were above the 1961-90 average over the vast majority of land areas. In parts of Arctic Russia around the Ob River estuary and Novaya Zemlya, they were 6°C to 7°C above average. Many other Arctic and sub-Arctic regions in Russia, Alaska and northwest Canada were at least 3°C above average.